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Dark Norway Story · ..Durgius..

Dark Norway Story · ..Durgius..
EXERCISE 23 OF 23
Play the whole song with the record
101 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 107 BARS LIT
PART C
PART S2
PART A
BREAK
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIFCAS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dark Norway Story on drums

107 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
48/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-55, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-36, 40-54 and 74-78, and 1 more place -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
Dark Norway Story -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 29, 30, 31, 55, 71 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I, F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-56 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 60-107 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Dark Norway Story?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dark Norway Story hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dark Norway Story?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 29, 30, 31, 55, 71 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED